Four days before he lifted off on his mission with his crew, I called his house to ask how the service went on his car. His wife answered the phone and said he wasn't home since he was in quarantine because he was going up in space soon. She then said he wouldn't be back for a month....................

Tom Jones is an infamous 1749 satiric novel by Henry Fielding about the misadventures of its eponymousfoundling hero in his quest to win his beloved and discover his parentage. Condemned in its time as a "motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery," the work is recognized today as one of the most ground-breaking and influential of the early English novels. Tom Jones is thought to be the first novel to employ chapters.